Summary of content

The module is assessed through a single dissertation (10,000 words) of which there are two key elements: a mini systematic literature review and a small‐scale empirical study. The systematic literature review (approx. 5,000 words) should focus on a topic of professional relevance within a field of applied psychology relevant to the student's programme of study (e.g. health, sport and exercise, counselling, forensic psychology). Building on this, students also conduct an empirical study (approx. 5,000 words) to inform psychology theory, practice, training and/or research linked to their programme of applied psychology study. The empirical project should involve collecting original empirical data from participants, or equivalent alternatives such as computational modelling of empirical data or secondary data analysis, making use of existing large quantitative or qualitative data sets.

Within the dissertation, the final submission of the systematic review and the empirical project should be formatted to the requirements of relevant journals. Students are required to assume a deep, systematic, critical and innovative stance in exploring a topic of relevance to their chosen field of applied psychology.

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